Scientists are trying different ways to reduce the bad side effects of a drug called rapamycin—like giving lower doses, combining it with other medicines, or taking breaks between doses—and recent findings suggest that taking breaks might help keep the good effects while reducing the bad ones.

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Transient and late-life rapamycin for healthspan extension

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2020 Mar 12

The study supports the idea that changing how we give rapamycin - from continuous lifelong treatment to shorter or later treatment - could help separate the good effects from the bad side effects, which matches what the claim says about intermittent dosing.

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Transient and late-life rapamycin for healthspan extension

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DOI: 10.18632/aging.102947

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Giving old mice the drug rapamycin less often (every 5 days instead of daily) at a specific dose helps them live longer without causing diabetes-like problems, showing that we might be able to get the good anti-aging effects without the bad side effects.

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Scientists have tested rapamycin in older people, but only to see if it helps the immune system fight infections. These studies look good, but they don't prove that rapamycin can help people live longer or healthier lives.

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